Media under fire
The biggest losers of the practice of shooting the messenger are the government and the people.
I.A. Rehman
Give them work and wages
The unemployment situation has acquired some extremely weird features.
Politics without culture?
In the hands of immature cadres, the ceaseless denunciation of fellow politicians assumes coarser forms.
Balochistan’s undying dream
Throughout the decades, Balochistan’s quislings and external forces have tried to suppress the 1932 agenda.
Overhaul the NAB law
If the accountability law is not a proper vehicle for preventing corruption, NAB may be restructured as a commission.
The five capital curses
Those in authority seem to be blissfully unaware of the threat that the rising tide of intolerance poses our society.
A new federal administration
What the task force has done is to suggest the reorganisation of federal organisational entities.
A debatable solution
The Supreme Court did not touch on the justification or otherwise for extending a service chief’s tenure
A wasted year
The govt failed to address the challenges of running a democratic dispensation by diluting principles and practices.
Judiciary: Treason now accountable
AT last a conviction for high treason has been recorded and, hopefully, Article 6 of the Constitution can no longer...
The route to para 66
Like other parts of the world, South Asia has a history of inhuman punishments.
A man of peace who flew high
When the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan was established, the former PAF chief was among the first few who joined.
Beyond shaming & damning
The rehabilitation of lawyers will require considerable effort by the greyheads among them.
Importance of routine
Serious complications can occur if the government deviates from its routine responsibilities.
Of students’ rights
The trouble with the administration is that it has all along viewed student unions as adversaries.
What administrative reform?
The enormously important task of restructuring should have the sanction of parliament.
Media’s shrinking space
The state’s failure to intervene, even to take notice, renders it liable to censure for complicity.
Healthcare for prisoners
Pakistani authorities have no use for the rules bearing the name of Nelson Mandela.
Misuse of antiterrorism law
Civil society should welcome the judgement as it promises a reduction in the misuse of the ATA by a predatory executive.
A bureaucracy paralysed
Civil servants and students of public administration will benefit from a detailed study on the bureaucracy.